Dolphin/Julia Trahan

Dolphin/ Julia Trahan has been writing, creating video art and performing theatre since childhood. Unable to obtain traditional theatrical roles after a drunk driver left her with multiple orthopedic injuries and partially paralyzed on one side, she moved into guerilla theatre, solo performance and experimental documentary video/film making. She received her dual- major BA in media theory and video production from Antioch College in 1991, followed by a Post graduate diploma in arts administration from University of Melbourne in 2001. Her autobiographical video, Memories From A Coma, was broadcast nationally on Free speech TV in 1993, while she performed and produced extensively around the San Francisco bay area, as well as continuing studies with freelance artists, such as AXIS Dance Company, Keith Hennessey and Dorothy Allison.
.............................................................................................. Dolphin (Julia) was featured in the BBCs award-winning documentary, Julia's Body, and also with other performers with disabilities, in the award winning, Vital Signs: crip culture talks back. In 2001, while studying and performing in Australia, she was fortunate to see DV8's Cost of Living, immediately falling in love with the mix of theatre, ensemble dance and multi media. Moving to Seattle in Sept 2003, she continues her explorations in experimental media - sound editing, underwater videography - and dance - Modern, Butoh and Contact Improvisation - and has presented solo and ensemble works on public sidewalks and at such venues as On the Boards (12 Min Max), Freehold theatre and University of Washington.

'Tao and the Art of Drowning' has been slated for New Zealand's Art of Disablement Symposium 2007/2008.